swaggerer

Example Sentences

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Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2012

A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York.

From Time Magazine Archive

Going from the door down the utterly empty street she saw a man, a big swaggerer, with something of the over-seas and the adventurer in his air.

From The Bartlett Mystery by Tracy, Louis

From king to churl was he a gallant noble; he, a swaggerer, ill-born, a terrorist of mountain passes.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Dyce says that the context would seem to imply that the term is equivalent to “culter, swaggerer, bully.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger